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Contents

Introduction-- A.Green Capitalisation by Stealth: The Business Takeover of Schools in England-- G.Rikowski All the Wrong Answers: Labour's Corporate-Centred Education Initiatives-- K.Farnsworth The Knowledge-based Economy and the Transformation of Higher Education: Issues concerning enclosing and protecting the intellectual commons-- M.Bellamy The Professional Imagination: Further Education Professionalism in and beyond a Neo-liberal Context-- D.Gleeson The Privatisation of Education Phase II: Perspectives on state schools the private sector and ten years of a Labour government-- T.Hafid Management and Governance of the School System-- R.Hatcher City: Academies, Alienation, Economism and Contending Forces for Change-- P.Woods Curriculum Change in the Blair Years-- T.Wrigley Education still make you sick under Gordon Brown, Innit?-- M.Allen & P.Ainley Ten Years of Education Policy and 'Race' Inequality: Whiteness or Neo-liberal Practice?-- A.Maisuria Gendered Practices in Education-- R.George & J.Wadsworth.

(source: Nielsen Book Data)

Publisher's Summary

Providing an overview and Marxist assessment of Tony Blair and New Labour's UK education policies, structures, and processes, the contributors in this exciting new collection discuss specific aspects of education policy and practices. This examination is set against the changing political and economic contexts of the British state's responses to global and neo-liberal pressures. Central themes include: New Labour and the education market state; New Labour, education, and ideology; and totality and open Marxism. Green's work marks a timely contribution to Marxist analysis and Left critical assessment and is the first such collection addressing New Labour education policy. (source: Nielsen Book Data)